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HOLYOKE – Volunteers are being sought for a campaign to raise $352,800 to restore the 13 stained glass windows at City Hall, Mayor Alex B. Morse said.

“We still need to raise a significant amount of money to fulfill this project, so I am asking community members with fundraising expertise or a passion for this project to join” the effort, Morse said Monday.

The Holyoke Public Library board of directors has pledged $50,000 for the project. The money is coming from the board’s endowment, not from its own fund-raising campaign to help with the $14.5 million reconstruction of the library at 335 Maple St., board president Stephen H. “Terry” Plum said in a press release.

The library’s temporary quarters during the construction is the City Hall auditorium, where the windows are located.

The windows of painted antique glass were designed and made by Samuel West of the Ecclesiastical Stained Glass Works in Boston and installed when City Hall opened in 1876.

Also leading to the windows’ deterioration, she said, is that previous attempts at repair were “of egregiously poor quality.”

“The longer it’s put off, the harder it is to do because things deteriorate. This is a good thing, yes,” Historical Commission member Glenn Sullivan said.

A bright spot is that bids for the repair work arrived low. Sloan estimated the restoration at $613,140. Serpentino Stained and Leaded Glass, Inc., of Needham, submitted the low bid of $352,800, Morse said.

Serpentino has worked on projects with Sloan previously and has shown the special attention and sensitivity required of restoration work, he said.

People interested in joining the fund-raising committee can contact Theresa Vincent in the mayor’s office at vincentt@ci.holyoke.ma.us